Queen Elizabeth’s grandson Peter Phillips ‘devastated’ after split from wife Autumn
- Split comes after a series of major setbacks for the UK royal family
- Phillips has no royal title and has tended to stay out of the limelight
Peter Phillips, the grandson of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, has separated from his Canadian wife after 12 years of marriage, The Sun newspaper reported on Tuesday.
The couple, who married in 2008, have two children, Savannah, 9, and Isla, 7. Buckingham Palace said it had no comment as it was a private matter.
Phillips, 42, son of Elizabeth’s daughter Princess Anne and 15th-in-line to the throne, and Autumn, 41, met in 2003 at the Montreal Grand Prix, when he worked for the Formula 1 racing team BMW Williams and she worked at the BMW hospitality suite.
They married at the queen’s Windsor Castle residence near London, the scene for a number of recent royal weddings including that of another of Elizabeth’s grandsons, Prince Harry to his American wife Meghan.
Phillips has no royal title and has tended to stay out of the limelight. He did, however, organise a giant street party in front of Buckingham Palace to celebrate the queen’s 90th birthday in 2016.